In 10.x and earlier, when I inserted a USB storage device it would get mounted in /media automatically.
With 11.1, it shows up in the device notifier and doesn’t get mounted until I select “open with dolphin” in the device notifier.
Is there a way to revert to the old behavior of auto mounting without user interaction?
Thanks,
Bruno.
My device is mounted. It doesn’t mount to the desktop like in kde3 default settings.
I use ‘Places’ in Dolphin and have dragged a Place for my USB ext HD. I don’t have to click on it to be able to access it. I mean - let us say I boot up and open k3b and navigate to it in there. It works. So I’m wondering, is your device NTFS?
Not NTFS, It is a vfat. It happens with all mountable media (CD, usb keys, camera…)
It isn’t until I click on the “Open with Dolphin” that I see the following in /var/log/messages, and the key shows up in /media:
hald: mounted /dev/sde1 on behalf of uid 1000
So it isn’t an issue with seeing it on the desktop. It is the fact that it doesn’t mount automatically.
So I’m not sure how to configure things so that whatever event is triggered by inserting the key causes the hald action to take place instead of (or in addition to) going to the device notifier…
vFAT should just work
Have you updated to kde4.2.*?
or do you have kde3 installed also? if so, how is it there?
I have the following: (Basically what was in the released ISO + whatever the auto update installed)
kdebase4-4.1.3-3.8.9
kdelibs4-4.1.3-4.10.4
kdelibs4-core-4.1.3-4.10.4
kde4-filesystem-4.1.3-1.16
libkdecore4-4.1.3-4.10.4
…
I also have some components of kde3: (kdelibs3-3.5.10-21.11)
I think they just got installed as part of installing some software through the yast software management.
My advise will be:
Better upgrade to KDE 4.2.4, you can use 1-click installer here.
I suggest you either add kde3 (very stable, rock solid)
In software management, filter by patterns and select kde3-base and kde3-desktop
you then have to logout and at the login screen, lower left corner, select kde3
you need auto login disabled
http://forums.opensuse.org/how-faq-read-only/unreviewed-how-faq/412554-disable-auto-login.html
or be a little adventurous and add the 4.2 repo’s
KDE4.2.* (How To Add) Guide. - openSUSE Forums
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll give them both a try tonight.
BTW, it probably isn’t related but I also noticed that vuescan can’t see my Minolta dual scan III negative scanner with this release. Same issue on both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions. It used to work just fine with 10.2.
I have the same problem with xfce on 11.1: no USB disk gets mounted, but I get two pop-ups saying “org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no ← (action, result).”. For other reasons, I had to switch to KDE 4.1 on one box, that fixed it. I still would like to know the root cause. Editing /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.storage.policy did not fix it!
I guess you’d like it to autostart dolphin when the stick is inserted right? It does mount BUT only when you click open with dolphin or when opening from dolphin. I think this is a good solution. Microsoft systems had problems with that because nowadays much malware spread with USB sticks. So in my opinion this is not bad 
No, it is not mounted at all. I can do it manually as root. As I said, switching to KDE fixes it, it mounts automagically. But
1.) What solution is that anyway?
2.) I’m stuck with XFCE on a low end box and want it to work w/o root.
For the record:
looks like my entry in policykit.conf was not correct. After I caved in and installed kde4.1, it did not work neither. Careful rereading resulted in this /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf:
<!-- -- XML -- →
<config version=“0.1”>
<match action=“org.freedesktop.hal.*”>
<return result=“yes”/>
</match>
</config>
<!–
See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format
→
Now automatic mounting of USB sticks works for KDE and XFCE. And, no I did not dig into the manual page. I refuse to familiarize myself with this Byzantinian buerocracy…